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School: Harristown, Piltown (roll number 13449)

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Harristown, Co. Kilkenny
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G. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0842, Page 134

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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  2. A Spring Well

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    A man was going to be hanged one day. The people said that they would leave him off if he would bring in a riddle that they could not answer. he went out into a graveyard and he came back with the following riddle.
    "As I walked out, as I walked in. I saw death abroad and life within. Six stood and the seventh went free. Riddle me that and hung I will be?" He saw a dead mans skull in the graveyard
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